Posted on 10/14/2024 8:08:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
One day each month, Charlie Kirk, one of the country’s most influential Republican activists, holds an event called Freedom Night in America at Dream City Church, a Pentecostal megachurch on the outskirts of Phoenix. “I truly believe that God has voted early in this election,” he said on a Wednesday in early October, addressing well over 1,000 people from a stage bathed in red, white and blue lights. “I believe that God voted early on July 13, when he spared the life of Donald Trump.”
Kirk was only 18 when he helped found the group Turning Point as a sort of youth wing of the Tea Party, and for years it was a secular, libertarian-leaning organization. But as the MAGA movement has grown more explicitly Christian nationalist, so has he. “I do not believe that if you love the Lord, read the Bible and call yourself a Christian, that you can vote for Kamala Harris for president,” he said at Dream City.
Today Turning Point has become a pillar of the Republican Party, especially in the swing state of Arizona, where Trump’s campaign has outsourced much of its ground operation to the group. Its strategy, which it calls “chase the vote,” is to tap into new parts of the electorate by targeting what the campaign calls “low propensity voters,” the sort of alienated, disconnected people, especially men, who’d presumably gravitate toward Trump if they could be bothered to cast ballots at all. “We’re going to make it too big to rig on Election Day,” said Kirk.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Charlie is really smart and knowledgeable, especially for someone who never went to college. He must have been homeschooled.
Yep. There is no standard definition for Christian Nationalism. It has a different for everyone who uses the term.
Didn’t know he wasn’t college educated.
He’s got a magnetic draw ability, courage, and drive.
I wonder what Ms. Goldberg has against Christians?
He is targeting the right audience. These skulls full of mush are sponges. The marxists learned that years ago.
Kirk holds public forums and openly debates obnoxious leftards. The crowd is hearing his logical viewpoint for the first time and it resonates with them. The faculty hates him for infringing on their long held monopoly of ideas.
Go Charlie!
EC
He’s college educated, just not the common approach.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.